Comments on: Oprah is Not Your Doctor and Much, Much More http://www.ourbodiesourblog.org/blog/2009/05/oprah-is-not-your-doctor-and-much-much-more Daily dose of women's health news and media analysis Sat, 04 Sep 2010 17:12:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Christine C. http://www.ourbodiesourblog.org/blog/2009/05/oprah-is-not-your-doctor-and-much-much-more/comment-page-1#comment-2361 Christine C. Tue, 19 May 2009 19:15:07 +0000 http://www.ourbodiesourblog.org/?p=6873#comment-2361 I completely agree that the U.S. record on pharmaceuticals is lacking, but there's no good evidence that bioidenticals are safer. Women's health advocates have raised a number of red flags, including the lack of oversight of compounding pharmacies: http://www.nwhn.org/healthinfo/detail.cfm?info_id=17&topic=Fact%20Sheets The issue goes beyond Somers, however. A number of guests have been given a powerful forum to promote specious claims and offer potentially dangerous advice. I completely agree that the U.S. record on pharmaceuticals is lacking, but there’s no good evidence that bioidenticals are safer. Women’s health advocates have raised a number of red flags, including the lack of oversight of compounding pharmacies: http://www.nwhn.org/healthinfo/detail.cfm?info_id=17&topic=Fact%20Sheets

The issue goes beyond Somers, however. A number of guests have been given a powerful forum to promote specious claims and offer potentially dangerous advice.

]]> By: liberality http://www.ourbodiesourblog.org/blog/2009/05/oprah-is-not-your-doctor-and-much-much-more/comment-page-1#comment-2359 liberality Tue, 19 May 2009 15:58:22 +0000 http://www.ourbodiesourblog.org/?p=6873#comment-2359 There are studies that back up bio-identical hormones as safer--they just aren't talked about in our country. And our country's health record just sucks. The FDA is a joke--another fox in the hen house so to speak. You blog about the inadequate to dangerous health care women receive all the time in this blog. There are studies that back up bio-identical hormones as safer–they just aren’t talked about in our country. And our country’s health record just sucks. The FDA is a joke–another fox in the hen house so to speak. You blog about the inadequate to dangerous health care women receive all the time in this blog.

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